“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

A new study argues that religion, politics and war affect how animals and plants in cities evolve, and the confluence of ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

The initiative emphasized the powerful role of microbiology and explored how new technologies can revolutionize our understanding of life's early evolutionary milestones.

FORKS, Wash. — In Kalaloch, on the Washington coast, people from all over the world come to stand in wonder and take pictures ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...